Dance as Collective Liberation

Please join us for an upcoming workshop, Dance as Collective Liberation: Embodying Unity.
This is the second in a series of workshops on how dance can build towards collective liberation and revolutionary communities. We intend to co-create a space to explore, process and integrate meaningful experiences of dance and movement. Together, we will reflect on movement/dance as a restorative and revolutionary tool that ripples from the individual to the collective. This workshop will include intentional movement and reflection on the somatic connections between flow, creativity, and the divine. We will also discuss how we can center the values of decolonization and the dismantling of supremacist systems through our relationships with dance, ourselves, eachother, and society at large.
Tickets are $25 each, but please reach out to us if finances are a barrier. Please get your tickets ahead of time as we have limited capacity!
Bios:
Oihana: Oihana is a healing artist and transformational guide who blends breath, movement, and touch. With a background in acting, circus, and dance, she co-created SEER Dance/Movement (Sacred Earth Embodied Ritual), a fusion of Middle Eastern and Temple dances inspired by nature's elements, energy work, and storytelling. Through Sacred Dance and Temple Arts, she helps participants integrate their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions. She is also part of the duo Dis:solution.
Fanny: Fanny Pérez Gutiérrez, is a movement & ritual artist, facilitator, and curator. She shares experiences of transcendence through the alignment of the body to access and bring forward new ways of organization and balance —performing and guiding folks through rituals to reach altered states of consciousness such as Ecstatic Trance Postures and Sacred Whirling. She has been invited to perform and work with local and international artists and organizations such as Universidad Iberoamericana (MEX), Grace Exhibition Space, Satellite Art Show, World Peace and Prayer Day (Woodstock), West Chelsea Festival of Art, etc.
Gina: Gina Mostafa (she/they) is the founder of Queering Existentialism, a community event series focused on education and connection through a lens of transformative justice and holistic harm reduction. They earned their Masters of Public Health from NYU, and are passionate about co-creating engaging spaces where folks can reflect on the healing aspects of community, altered states of consciousness, dance and sexuality.
Katarina: Katarina (she/her) is a social worker and psychotherapist who is passionate about the healing powers of dance and movement. In addition to facilitating workshops with Queering Existentialism, Katarina provides gender-affirming psychedelic assisted therapy and legal advocacy in NYC.
Sam: Sam (she/her) earned a BA in Mental Health and Disability Studies from Hampshire College. She is a skilled psychedelic peer support and integration specialist, as well as a women’s circle facilitator. Currently, she works at a mental health non-profit, coordinating and facilitating support groups. Sam is also involved in the dance community, exploring how dance intersects with themes of liberation, queerness, and relationships.

Yuj: Yuj Archetype is a subtle energetics artist, somatic alchemist, musician and movement artist. He has developed a multi-disciplinary art for integration and embodiment in his self-mastery work. Throughout his practice and explorations, sound, the voice, music, movement and body language are essential parts of understanding transformation, authenticity, and creativity. Yuj’s mission in life is to usher in the new paradigm for humanity and help people discover their own medicine.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

119 Knickerbocker Ave, 119 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, United States